The criteria used by the Economic Inspection Unit to select a 5% sample of transactions to be monitored do not ensure a representative sample of projects from each form of assistance, since the samples mainly include large-scale projects and exclude from the outset all projects already monitored previously by the European Economy Unit.

A representative sample of operations approved should take account of the need to inspect operations of different kinds and scales and of the risk factors identified.

You find in a small sample that two-thirds do not appear to meet the criteria. Are you going to conduct a full-scale review to find out how detailed this problem is if you don't believe 26 contracts is a sample?

(e) that milk samples must be from injected dairy cows only and that these samples must be pasteurized using all relevant pasteurization scales for milk and milk products and all variations in either composition or percentile of composition be noted;

the development of the Indicator should fully respect the responsibility of Member States for the organisation of their education systems and should not impose undue administrative or financial burdens on the organisation and institutions concerned; the method for data-gathering should take account of previous work in the field at international, Union and Member State level, and be devised and implemented in a cost-effective manner; the European Indicator of Language Competence shall be put in place as soon as possible, in accordance with the following terms of reference: data should be gathered on competences in first and second foreign languages: via a common suite of tests administered to a representative ...[+++]sample of the target population in each Member State; from a representative sample of pupils in education and training at the end of ISCED level 2; where a second foreign language is not taught before the end of ISCED 2, Member States may, in the first round of data-gathering, choose to gather data for the second foreign language from pupils at the level of ISCED 3; for those languages for which there exists a suitable representative sample of learners in a given Member State; test scores should be based on the scales of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages ; because respect for linguistic diversity is a core value of the European Union, the Indicator should be based upon data concerning the knowledge of all the official languages of the European Union taught as foreign languages in the Union; but for practical reasons it would be advisable, in the first round of data-gathering, for tests to be made available in those official languages of the European Union that are most widely taught in the Member States, to the extent that they provide a sufficiently large sample of testees ; Member States shall themselves determine which of those official languages are to be tested; the Indicator should assess competence in the four productive a ...

However, for clarification, it is our understanding that the federal DNA system, the DNA data bank system that we are authorized to inquire into, has very strict rules and would not permit the gathering of broad-scale samples of DNA just for purposes of elimination.